Though they can depict any animal, toys named for these animals are molded from mud or clay during the Renzu Festival to commemorate Fuxi’s creation of man. Various Chinese agriculture origin myths relate how humanity retrieved entangled grain seeds from these animals. The Miao and Yao claim descent from a draconic animal of this type, who wed a princess after retrieving an enemy general’s head. Solar and lunar eclipses are caused by one of these animals opposed by the archer Zhang Xian. Sun Wukong’s calf is wounded by one of these animals at (*) Erlang Shen’s behest. This animal decided to bathe in a river during the zodiac race, causing it to finish behind the rooster, but earn the second-to-last placement just ahead of pig. For 10 points, Chinese guardian lion statues are alternatively known as the “Foo” type of what animal? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 92% | 17% | 25% | 117.64 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Shi | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Halifax Shipping Services | 81 | 15 |
| Dan Ni | Enjoying the Hole Experience | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 91 | 15 |
| Cyrus Zhou | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 97 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 107 | -5 |
| Iain Carpenter | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Broken Socal Scene | 112 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Do re mi fa serving negs | 114 | -5 |
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Floridovician | 114 | 10 |
| Jeremy Tsai | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The RAND Coöperation | 116 | 10 |
| Aaron Zhou | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Big is moving to Evanston! | 117 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | BHSU X | BHSU B | 119 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 139 | 10 |
| Andrew Ullsperger | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 139 | 10 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 140 | 10 |
| Parikshit Chauhan | Broken Socal Scene | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 141 | 10 |